Friday The 13th The Game Release Date

Fri the 13th: The Game is a survival horror game released on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation four. It was released on May 26th, 2017 for digital stores and the physical copies were released on October 13th, 2017. The game was released on Nintendo Switch on August 13, 2019.

Gameplay

Friday the 13th: The Game is a semi-open world third-person survival horror game set in the fictional camp of Crystal Lake in the Fri the 13th franchise. The time period in which the game is set is the mid-1980s in order to better capture the experience.

The game is an asymmetrical multiplayer video game, with up to eight people able to play in one game. One histrion controls Jason Voorhees, while the remaining players command camp counselors at Crystal Lake. A thespian may too control Tommy Jarvis, who becomes playable when sure weather are met. According to gameplay demos, Jason has heightened hearing and vision, with him being able to teleport anywhere the player wants. The objective of the counselors is to escape from the camp or survive until time runs out on the session, while Jason'due south objective is to kill all the remaining players. Jason may too exist defeated with an "'ballsy' win condition" that requires teamwork and is difficult to perform.

Kane Hodder, who portrayed Jason in Part Vii, Role VIII, Jason Goes to Hell, and Jason Ten reprised him via movement capture and coordinated the stunts. Thom Mathews, who portrayed Tommy Jarvis in Part VI, and Larry Zerner, who played Shelley Finkelstein in Part III, also reprise their roles in the series.

Although the game was originally planned to exist multiplayer only, a single-player mode will exist added in an update planned for Summer 2017, despite the stretch goal for United states$1.625 million to unlock it not beingness reached. The fashion will consist of objective-based missions that will allow the player to take control of Jason against offline campsite advisor bots. Some of the missions will exist adaptations of the films, while others are original scenarios.

Characters

In the game, players can have control of a number of unlike characters. Players volition either be a counselor or Jason.

Counselors

Notes

Although Tommy is not technically a counselor, he is a special graphic symbol in the game. All of Tommy's stats are 10/ten and he is the merely one who can kill Jason. To become Tommy on the map, at least two counselors need to either die or escape and you lot need to utilise the CB radio to call him. Then i of the Dead/Escaped counselors will be brought back as Tommy Jarvis.

Additionally, there is one unplayable counselor, Rob Dier ("The Start Victim") who is always killed in the opening cutscene and whose body tin can be found in random areas around the map is based on Rob Dier from The Final Chapter.

Jason Voorhees

There are nine different playable Jasons and Roy Burns to cull from. Parts 2, 3, four, 6, 7, 8 & 9, too every bit Roy Burns from Part 5 and Tom Savini's own Jason, created particularly for the game. Uber Jason from Jason X has been announced in the Virtual Cabin 2.0 equally a future playable character. Jason is able to interchange each weapon. Each Jason has his own strengths and weakness based on events depicted in the Friday the 13th movies:

Collectibles

Pamela Tapes: Tapes of Pamela Voorhees talking with the Crystal Lake Law, including the Police Chief Tom Kelley and Detective Joe Maddery, after Jason's supposed drowning. Malcolm Jarvis, Tommy'southward father, also appears on one of the tapes as the local doctor trying to calm Pamela down. The Pamela Tapes were written by Tom McLoughlin, who also wrote Friday the 13th Office VI: Jason Lives.

Tommy Tapes: The all-new Tommy Jarvis Tapes are ready to be establish throughout Camp Crystal Lake! Observe an entirely new set of tapes that explore the earth of Tommy Jarvis and how he deals with the unrelenting strength of Jason Voorhees. Written by Adam Dark-green (Creator of Hatchet, Digging Up the Marrow, Frozen) to create a new story focused on one of the few heroes of Friday the 13th!

Weapons

Shotgun: four Stun iv Damage 1 Durability (or 1 shot)

Flare Gun: 3 Stun 1 Damage 1 Durability (or ane shot)

Axe: 2 Stun iv Damage iii Immovability

Machete: 1 Stun 3 Damage 3 Durability

Baseball game Bat: 4 Stun 2 Impairment 1 Durability

Pot/Pan: 3 Stun one Impairment four Durability

Branch: 3 Stun one Damage 3 Durability

Pipage: two Stun 2 Damage iii Durability

Forest Plank: 3 Stun 2 Damage 2 Durability

Piping Wrench: 3 Stun one Impairment 4 Durability

Burn down Poker: 1 Stun 2 Damage three Immovability

Maps

Army camp Crystal Lake

Camp Crystal Lake (Small-scale)

Packanack Lodge

Packanack Society (Modest)

Higgins Oasis

Higgins Haven (Minor)

Jarvis Business firm

Pinehurst

The Grendel, based on the spaceship from Jason X was confirmed in the secret ending to the Virtual Cabin two.0 however this was canceled due to a legal dispute which ended content creation for the game.